706
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This article is about the year 706. For the number (and other uses), see 706 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 670s 680s 690s – 700s – 710s 720s 730s |
| Years: | 703 704 705 – 706 – 707 708 709 |
| 706 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 706 DCCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1459 |
| Armenian calendar | 155 ԹՎ ՃԾԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5456 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1138–-1137 |
| Bengali calendar | 113 |
| Berber calendar | 1656 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1250 |
| Burmese calendar | 68 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6214–6215 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年十二月十二日 (3342/3402-12-12) — to —
丙午年十一月廿二日(3343/3403-11-22) |
| Coptic calendar | 422–423 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 698–699 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4466–4467 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 762–763 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 628–629 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3807–3808 |
| Holocene calendar | 10706 |
| Iranian calendar | 84–85 |
| Islamic calendar | 87–88 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3039 |
| Minguo calendar | 1206 before ROC 民前1206年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1249 |
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Year 706 (DCCVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 706 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
[edit] Events
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[edit] China
- July 2 – Emperor Zhongzong of Tang had the remains of his mother and recently deceased ruling empress Wu Zetian, her son Li Xian, her grandson Li Chongrun, and granddaughter Li Xianhui all interred in at the same tomb complex as his father and Wu Zetian's husband Emperor Gaozong (d. 683) outside Chang'an known as the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang.
[edit] Byzantine Empire
- 15 February – The restored Byzantine emperor Justinian II presides over the public humiliation of his predecessors Leontius and Tiberius III and their chief associates in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, after which they are executed. Patriarch Callinicus I is also deposed, blinded and exiled, and succeeded by Cyrus.[1]
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[edit] Religion
- Umayyad Caliph al-Walid I begins the Great Mosque of Damascus.
[edit] Births
- Eoppa de Wessex (d. 789)
- Han Gan, painter during the Tang Dynasty (d. 783)
[edit] Deaths
- Shenxiu, Chinese Zen Buddhist patriarch of the Tang Dynasty
- Zhang Jianzhi, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 625)
[edit] References
- ^ Venning, Timothy, ed. (2006). A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 190. ISBN 1-4039-1774-4.
